SPEAKING AND WORKSHOPSTurning Defence Strategy into Real Delivery.
Practical briefings and workshops that help leaders understand what needs to change for plans to translate into outcomes.
Industry conferences and associations: Audiences that need a sharper way to understand Defence industry, sovereign capability and SME execution.
Boards and executive teams: Private briefings on Defence market reality, AUKUS, industrial participation or growth execution.
Primes and program teams: Understanding the SME layer they depend on, and why supplier capability does not automatically become program relevance.
Investors and advisers: Testing whether a Defence growth story is operationally credible and executable.
Government and policy-facing audiences: Where policy intent meets industrial reality.
For audiences working near the Defence industrial system
WHO IS IT FOR
Briefings Topics Tailored for You
Presentations and briefings can be tailored to your audience, objectives and event format, ensuring every session delivers practical insight and meaningful discussion.
The Execution Gap
Understand why good strategies often fail in execution and how organisations can close the gap between ambition and meaningful outcomes.
The Hollow Middle
Explore where Defence industrial systems lose momentum and identify the structural barriers that prevent progress from turning into results.
Push and Pull
Examine why government and industry policies continue to produce familiar outcomes and what needs to change to create lasting impact.
Scaled Relevance
Learn what capabilities organisations need to develop to become genuinely valuable within the Defence ecosystem rather than simply larger.
AUKUS And Industrial Reality
Gain a practical perspective on what AUKUS commitments mean for Australian industry, where the real opportunities lie, and where expectations should be tempered.
The Sovereign Industrial Question
Discover why sustainment remains the strongest measure of sovereign capability and what this means for Defence and industry investment.
Briefing Formats:
- Keynote presentation (30–60 minutes + Q&A)
- Board or executive briefing (60–90 minutes)
- Executive workshop (half day session)
- Panel or fireside conversation
Every session is prepared for the audience. No off-the-shelf speech.
WHAT A SESSION SHOULD DOThe room should leave with better questions.
A good session should help the audience ask sharper questions:
Is this business being pulled by the customer, or only pushing capability at the market?
Where is the Hollow Middle in this program, sector or supply chain?
What would make the customer change behaviour?
Is this growth story executable?
What has to be true for sovereign capability to become industrial fact?
The goal is clarity, not theatre.
Connection to the book
Chris’s forthcoming book - The Hollow Middle - publishes early 2027: a business parable about what governments announce, what countries actually build, and the middle where capability is supposed to become real. Sessions can be built around the book, the Execution Gap framework, or a specific audience problem.
CONNECT WITH CHRISEnquire about speaking or briefing.
For keynotes, board briefings, executive workshops, panels or private roundtables, start with a short conversation about the audience, the setting and the question the session needs to answer. Based in Sydney, available across Australia and internationally.